Krissy Kneen, Affection, The Text Publishing Company Mary-Rose MacColl, The Birth Wars, University of Queensland Press Alasdair McGregor, Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Penguin Group (Australia) Mark Tredinnick, The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir, University of Queensland Press Brenda Walker, Reading by Moonlight: How books saved a life, Penguin Group (Australia)

History Book - Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award

Bain Attwood, Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History, Melbourne University Publishing Limited Maria Hill, Diggers and Greeks: the Australian campaigns in Greece and Crete, University of New South Wales Press Ian Hoskins, Sydney Harbour: A history, University of New South Wales Press Grace Karskens, The Colony: A History of Early Sydney, Allen & Unwin Thomas Keneally, Australians: Origins to Eureka, Allen & Unwin